Venture firms raised $ 9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $ 81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the fundraising market’s frost the most, some emerging VCs like A* have enough name recognition, and a good enough track record, to still find […]
Heart failure monitoring startup, Acorai, turns heads with oversubscribed seed
Swedish medical device startup Acorai is pairing proprietary sensing hardware and machine learning software with the goal of putting a non-invasive heart pressure monitoring tool in the hands of clinicians — starting with doctors in the US. Patients hospitalized with heart failure typically need to undergo an invasive procedure, such as catheterization or having an […]